While walking, I contemplated what I did. I had killed an innocent man. However, it didn't faze me at all.
Sure, I felt a little guilty and regretted killing him, but it wouldn't keep me up at night.
All it did was open my eyes to how wonderful my ability was. I only had it for a week, but it has already gotten this strong. I couldn't imagine how strong it would get in a couple of months or years.
'Maybe I should try it out again. But this time, not killing the person.'
I wanted to experiment with illusion hypnosis more. The possibilities were endless. If I were to fight, winning would be as easy as breathing if I used illusion-type hypnosis.
With a smile, I walked towards the old homeless man a couple of meters away from me.
I had only been walking for ten minutes, but I had already found my next victim. I inched closer to him and took out a two-dollar coin.
With a smile, I looked into his eyes and spoke.
"Good afternoon sir, How are you?"
"I-"
Before he could finish, he fell under my hypnosis.
As I was about to speak, I thought of something. 'If two homeless guys died and they connect it back to me, I can get in some serious trouble. One is a coincidence, two, not so much. Especially in such a small time frame.'
"Never mind."
I walked away from the man and snapped my fingers. 'I guess that's enough for today.'
Instead of doing something that can have me get caught, I decided to just go home. Soon enough, I was already at the train station. From here, there was only a ten-minute walk.
However, once I stepped on the path and walked a couple of meters, three people in ski masks popped out. 'Where the fuck were they?'
"Hey, kid. Give us the gold bracelet and nothing serious will happen."
The one in the front said as he pulled out a baton. The two behind him followed suit and did the same.
'Fuck this.'
I looked at the one in the back. The one on the right side of the person in the front. I activated my ability and waited for our eyes to meet.
'Ding, ding. I guess this will be easy.'
"You know this is kinda unfair. Three on one. Come on. Why don't you make it a two on two? Hit him!"
The one in the trance whipped his baton at the person beside him.
The one he hit cursed and asked why he hit him. However, the one in my trance couldn't answer. Watching this all happen, the man in the front looked at them in confusion. However, that was enough time for me to move.
I ran at the man in the front and tackled him. Making eye contact, I spoke. "Fall asleep and forget all about me."
His eyes gave off a purple hue before he fell asleep.
I looked towards the bloodied man who was still taking the beating and stopped the attacker.
"Stop!"
He stopped and turned my way.
"Forget you saw me and fall asleep."
He did as I said and passed out, falling to the ground.
I walked to the bloodied man and looked into his eyes. He was still conscious.
"You should get up. Hit the guy over there and fall asleep. Oh, and forget all about me."
The barely conscious man stood up with difficulty and grabbed his baton. He walked to the man who was in front of them and hit his face multiple times. It was a bloody mess.
Thankfully, we were on a forest-like path, making it impossible to have cameras. The wannabe robbers chose a good place to rob me. If they did it in the open, I would fear having my secret let out.
I then watched as the last man in my trance stopped hitting him. "Before you fall asleep. If anyone asks what happened, you did this."
With that, the man fell asleep, and I made my way home.
With a snap, the men were broken out of my hypnosis and slowly started waking up. However, by the time they would look around and get up, I would be long gone.
'Hmm, so far I know I can hypnotize two people at a time. I wanna see how much more I can handle.'
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I opened the door to my house and greeted my parents, who were watching TV with my brother. I was out the whole day, so when they asked me to join them, I told them I needed to shower first.
After a nice shower, I changed into shorts and a shirt. I then took out a hundred dollars from my bag and stuffed them into my pocket before joining my family on the couch. Once the movie was over, I asked my parents if I could open up a bank account.
"Why would you need one right now?"
"I made a lot of money from selling chocolates and I want to put some money on the card."
I answered my dad's question, making them raise an eyebrow.
"How much have you made?"
"A hundred dollars."
I then took out the hundred from my pocket and handed it to him.
He counted the money and nodded in approval. "I'm proud. Few kids your age have this much money at their disposal."
"We're very proud Damian. Let's open an account up tomorrow."
"Thanks, mom."
After giving both of them a hug, I went into my room.
My brother followed closely behind and asked, "Can you lend me some money?"
"No. I'm broke."
Not wanting to talk about lending him money any longer, I cut off the conversation by putting on my headphones.
I loaded up the computer and saw a missed call from my 'friends.' Since coming back, I kind of distanced myself from the group. Ivan and Danny were both like brothers, but this wasn't my last life.
At this moment in our lives, the three of us don't have many things in common. Plus, I have goals I want to achieve. And those goals aren't something I can share. After all, they were illegal.
So, after some consideration, I joined the call.
Since I only talked to them in school and not out, they were surprised. But they welcomed me with open arms.
With a small smile, I joined the game they were playing.